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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWatching "The Blues Brothers" again.
My DVD includes deleted scenes. The day after Jake gets out of jail, he goes to his job at some sort spray-can factory and tells his boss he is quitting because he's going to become a priest!
bluesbassman
(19,366 posts)Great movie, one of my favorites.
That explains why they filmed that scene in the first place, even though they deleted it.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Still use this line when I'm out buying drinks...
Brigid
(17,621 posts)DU is so educmacashunal!
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Well kind of mundane actually, but it's interesting they wrote that in for that particular reason
zappaman
(20,606 posts)never knew that!
Thanks!!!!!
jessie04
(1,528 posts).
Wounded Bear
(58,618 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)That is one of my favorite movies. I might have to watch it again this afternoon.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)jmowreader
(50,546 posts)The first is the Theatrical Cut. It's the one we're all familiar with.
The second is the Extended Cut, which Brigid's DVD contains; the Blu-ray has both. In addition to the glue factory scene (it's Elwood that quits his job; Jake's been in prison for three years), the entire jail-release sequence is there, the scene where you learn how the Bluesmobile gets its superpowers is there, the nun's explanation of where the "missions" she'll be sent to if the orphanage closes is there, Morrie Sline telling Jake the old blues clubs they used to play are now discos is there, Carrie Fisher telling Jake she's going to kill him because her father used up his last favors with the Mafia to get the limos for their wedding is there...
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,318 posts)I've seen the movie a gazillion times.
jmowreader
(50,546 posts)The "made for television" version is the theatrical version with the obscenities removed, so Jake tells The Penguin "it looks like you're up the creek" and stuff like that - which completely destroys the whole joke; why would The Penguin beat anyone for saying "the creek"?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the second one sucked and only a few songs were great...
Sad, but they don't make comedies like this anymore. I was too young to see this in the theater when it came out but remember watching it with my older brother when it was on network TV for the first time. Never get tired of this movie. What's amazing is to watch some of these movies from 70's and 80's today that were rated R. An R rated movie back then would be a PG movie today.Blues Brothers got an R rating I think mostly due to language. What I also loved about this movie were the musical numbers. A movie like this could not be made today.
JVS
(61,935 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Without it, we don't know where the glue came from all of a sudden.